Word Meanings - ALLIGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.
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- UNITERABLE
Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne. - ALLIGATION
A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain - ALLIGATE
To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale. - ALLIGATOR WRENCH
A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - UNITEDLY
In an united manner. Dryden. - UNITE
1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together. 2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition. - NATURELESS
Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton. - UNITER
One who, or that which, unites. - NATURE
1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order - UNITED
Combined; joined; made one. United Brethren. See Moravian, n. -- United flowers , flowers which have the stamens and pistils in the same flower. -- The United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland; -- so named since January 1, 1801, when - ALLIGATOR
A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common - THEIR
The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak. - TIME SIGNATURE
A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as - ORNATURE
Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed. - ALUNITE
Alum stone. - CONSIGNATURE
Joint signature. Colgrave. - REUNITEDLY
In a reunited manner. - TRANSNATURE
To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel. - BRAUNITE
A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha. - DENATURE
To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of. - SIGNATURE
An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well - PREMUNITE
To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. Fotherby. - DISNATURED
Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak. - DISUNITE
1. To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter. 2. To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of. Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise